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FATHERS’ DAY ½

(Comcast Movie Collections: Great Movie Fathers) Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star in this merely OK remake of the French comedy “Les Comperes,” as they’re manipulated into searching for a runaway teenager each thinks is his son. Williams is the neurotic ’60s leftover, Crystal the aggressive head-butting lawyer who does a great job of making you feel what he’s not saying. (PG-13; runs through July 2)

HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS

(Comcast Movie Collections: Worst Movie Dads) The Disney folks have come up with a charming and inventive sci-fi comedy about an absent-minded inventor who accidently shrinks his kids to one-quarter of an inch. It’s what used to be called a “family movie,” somewhat sanitized in tone, but nifty special effects and a tidy script make this a good bet. (PG; runs through July 2)

FATHERS AND SONS ½

(Comcast Movie Collections: Comedy) Awkward, ungainly, too earnest for its own good and filled with clumsy symbolic underlinings. Nevertheless, this intimately scaled drama of a father and his son trying to work out their relationship to each other in a Jersey shore town is carried by the emotional conviction in the work of Jeff Goldblum and Rory Cochrane. (R; runs through
July 3)